Broke my shoulder when we were living in Olhão, mid pandemic. The ambulance team was great.
At SNS Faro, the wait time was reasonable (I arrived around midnight on a Saturday and was home around 5) and the care, while perfunctory, was competent.
What has stayed with me was the sound of the multiple elderly, disoriented, clearly in discomfo…
Broke my shoulder when we were living in Olhão, mid pandemic. The ambulance team was great.
At SNS Faro, the wait time was reasonable (I arrived around midnight on a Saturday and was home around 5) and the care, while perfunctory, was competent.
What has stayed with me was the sound of the multiple elderly, disoriented, clearly in discomfort and/or pain, patients who were left on gurneys in the hallway outside our waiting area for hours without any attention.
While I honestly believe the SNS staff was doing the best they could during a difficult time, I hope I'm never in the same situation.
I used to work in a facility for older people. Generally when people are left in certain regions, always, by nursing stations, it is so staff can keep an eye on them. That does not make their distress any easier to bear.
And I've been on a gurney for hours (10AM-6PM) in a hallway in the ER in a hospital in Boston, waiting for a surgeon to be available to perform an appendectomy. I was well attended to and given that there wasn't a room available, was grateful for the care.
Broke my shoulder when we were living in Olhão, mid pandemic. The ambulance team was great.
At SNS Faro, the wait time was reasonable (I arrived around midnight on a Saturday and was home around 5) and the care, while perfunctory, was competent.
What has stayed with me was the sound of the multiple elderly, disoriented, clearly in discomfort and/or pain, patients who were left on gurneys in the hallway outside our waiting area for hours without any attention.
While I honestly believe the SNS staff was doing the best they could during a difficult time, I hope I'm never in the same situation.
Thank you for the ambulance info.
I used to work in a facility for older people. Generally when people are left in certain regions, always, by nursing stations, it is so staff can keep an eye on them. That does not make their distress any easier to bear.
Generally, yes, I'd agree.
And I've been on a gurney for hours (10AM-6PM) in a hallway in the ER in a hospital in Boston, waiting for a surgeon to be available to perform an appendectomy. I was well attended to and given that there wasn't a room available, was grateful for the care.
Just to be clear. This was not that situation.
Got it. Sounds awful.